11mo ago

Neil Young gives Tim Walz permission for his song – after he sued Trump for using it

www.independent.co.uk

Trump’s campaign also tried to use Beyonce’s “Freedom,” but stopped when she threatened to sue

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The song is "Rockin' in the Free World". Hopefully Young asked Walz, "are you sure you want to use that one?"
There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can
[Chorus]
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There's an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool
[Chorus]
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We've got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
[Chorus]
- It actually makes sense as a campaigning song to me as long as your platform is about trying to address the social problems the song is highlighting.
  
  WHERE IS MY TOILET PAPER?
- Many people don't listen to the main lyrics or understand the meaning of songs, but just like the chorus.
  "Born in the USA" is another example.
  
  Same as the Magaites dancing to Killing In The Name a while back during the BLM protests. It was obvious that the only part of the song they cared about was "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"
  
  Or Paul Ryan and anything by RAtM.
  
  a team is one your comment just reminded me of, thanks.
  And some mandatory songs that always came up that my memory serves... semi charmed life by third eye blind, hey ya by outcast, every breath you take by the police, escape (Pina colada song) by Rupert Holmes, macarena ...
  Ok I got bored trying to remember them all if anyone wants to add ..
  
  Which was used for NJ in the roll call. I laughed a bit.
  
  AMERICAN WOMAN
The DNC had permission for every song in the roll call. That was a major flex, and endorsement from all of those artists.
Oh hey, are we returning to a time where we can all agree that Nazis are bad?
- Was there ever a time where we all agreed on that?
  
  When John Belushi said "I hate Illinois nazis" and drove them all into the river in The Blues Brothers, there wasn't anybody around who didn't think that was funny.
  
  2007....
  All the "I Don't See Color!" People started to think otherwise when they realized "Oh wait, minorities are allowed to be in charge of things? Fuck it, I'm with Hitler!"
- I'm not holding my breath.
- The pendulum swings.
been noticing the conservatives on Twitter freaking out over the music rights thing, rattling on about how "music should be for everyone". which is a hoot, because like, wait, you're telling me you want to take the property of someone else, which they invested time and money into producing, and redistribute it to all people who want it?? HMMMM that sounds like something...
I've had a few folks delete their tweets but for the most part they just ignore it or call me very stupid and evil (their go-to when they have no argument) lmao. I actually engaged one Maga musician because he was afraid of what would happen if we allowed the right's "musical socialism" discussion to continue.
What happened to Kid Rock? The greatest celebrity there ever was
- He was last seen eating French Cries while being taken away in the whaaaambulance.
  
  i heard they administered Crylenol
- He couldn’t do anything of note without amphetamines and Warren Zevon
  
  Who could?
  
  Hey now, he's just an excitable boy.
As a Canadian, his music is like crack to me
- Lol I saw him at a musical festival near Barrie like 8 years ago, and I remember someone from the group beside me saying "I swear to god if he says Monsanto one more time..." and then then the literal next song started with a big power chord and "Mooonnnssaaaaaannnntoooooo" and they stood up and left.
  
  Lol that's what I've heard. I adore his folk music, but his concerts I hear just devolve into shitty political rallies.
  
  That's actually hilarious
yep
Can he even sue? I thought UMG or Atlantic owned his music.
- How can she ~~slap~~ sue?
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